Takeshi Ishiguro is a highly respected Japanese design maverick with a flair for melding gadgets with a sense of poetry. A giant smoke ring machine, a dance performance piece in zero gravity or a “love sofa” that works like a Theremin are just a few of his peculiar yet stunning and unique projects.
Uleshka invited him to Tokyo Art Beat’s TAB Talk to find out about his work processes, motivation behind slightly obsessed tinkering and his impressive list of clients…

Uleshka organized a designer gathering where she interviewed seven of the most influential and renowned Japanese graphic designers at that time about contemporary Japanese design – for Sushi, the annual report of young talents from the German Art Directors’ Club.

Uleshka introduces progressive and innovative design projects to Worldchanging.com – one of the largest and respected sites for sustainable living and growing ecological prosperity…

Los Logos 4 provides an authoritative overview of current developments and advances in logo design, one of the most prestigious of creative disciplines which represent the essential visual identity of brands, companies and their philosophies.

At 568 pages, Los Logos 4 is the largest volume to date, showcasing a collection of contemporary logo design…

The Russian-born artist Vania Zouravliov creates surreally haunting illustrations. In artworks that often depict beautiful women involved in macabre or erotic scenes, Vania’s intense emotional style evokes a nostalgia rooted in the artist’s Russian background. Drawn in painstaking detail, they capture a mixture of innocence, brutality, beauty and decay. Uleshka interviewed the young artist for his first monograph…

Uleshka wrote various book titles on relevant contemporary design for Gestalten. All of them were best selling and have been reprinted. Los Logos 4 | Contemporary Logo Design Los Logos 4 is an up-to-the-minute survey on contemporary logo design featuring over 5,000 cutting-edge examples. Gestalten’s best-selling Logos series has documented and indicated design styles andMore…

Pecha Kucha Night was devised in Tokyo as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It rests on a simple presentation format: 20 images x 20 seconds. This unique framework makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. Uleshka wrote the book…

In 2005 Japanese design company IMG SRC allowed then web designer Uleshka to experiment and granted her a special project: a blog about design. The outcome was PingMag: An online design magazine based in Tokyo evolving around the idea of finding inspiration in everything and defining the term design as broadly as one could. It became Asia’s biggest design blog…